TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2017//
TI  - User profiles of an electronic mental health tool for ecological momentary assessment: MEmind
JO  - International journal of methods in psychiatric research
A1  - Barrigón, María Luisa
A1  - Berrouiguet, Sofian
A1  - Carballo, Juan José
A1  - Bonal-Giménez, Covadonga
A1  - Fernandez-Navarro, Pablo
A1  - Pfang, Bernadette
A1  - Delgado-Gomez, David
A1  - Courtet, Philippe
A1  - Aroca, Fuensanta
A1  - Lopez-Castroman, Jorge
A1  - Artés-Rodríguez, Antonio
A1  - Baca-Garcia, Enrique
A1  - MEmind study group, 
SP  - e1554
EP  - e1554
VL  - 26
IS  - 1
N2  - Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) is gaining importance in psychiatry. This article assesses the characteristics of patients who used a new electronic EMA tool: the MEmind Wellness Tracker. Over one year, 13811 adult outpatients in our Psychiatry Department were asked to use MEmind. We collected information about socio-demographic data, psychiatric diagnoses, illness severity, stressful life events and suicidal thoughts/behavior. We compared active users (N = 2838) and non-active users (N = 10,973) of MEmind and performed a Random Forest analysis to assess which variables could predict its use. Univariate analyses revealed that MEmind-users were younger (42.2 ± 13.5 years versus 48.5 ± 16.3 years; χ2  = 18.85; P < 0.001) and more frequently diagnosed with anxiety related disorders (57.9% versus 46.7%; χ2  = 105.92; P = 0.000) than non-active users. They were more likely to report thoughts about death and suicide (up to 24% of active users expressed wish for death) and had experienced more stressful life events than non-active users (57% versus 48.5%; χ2  = 64.65; P < 0.001). In the Random Forest analysis, 31 variables showed mean decrease accuracy values higher than zero with a 95% confidence interval (CI), including sex, age, suicidal thoughts, life threatening events and several diagnoses. In the light of these results, strategies to improve EMA and e-Mental Health adherence are discussed.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1049-8931
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/mpr.1554
ID  - ref1
ER  -